1. Decisions and actions taken after a disaster, including a disease, with a view to
restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the stricken community,
while encouraging and facilitating necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risk
(ISDR).
2. Longer-term effort to (a) reconstruct and restore the disaster (disease)-stricken area,
e.g. through repairing or replacing homes, businesses, public works, and other
structures; (b) deal with the disruption that the disaster has caused in community life